๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ / Perilla Oil Makguksu โ€” K-Food Stories

๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜

Perilla Oil Makguksu

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธŒ์œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์˜ค๋ž˜๋๊ณ  ยท ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค ยท Older Than Olive Oil. Better Than Most.

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๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ โ€” ํšŒ์ƒ‰๋น› ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๋ฉด ์œ„์— ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ์œค๊ธฐ์™€ ๊น€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ, ํ†ต๊นจ

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"While the world obsessed over olive oil, Korea had already been using something better for centuries." โ€” Perilla Oil Makguksu.

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธŒ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋ฐฐํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ ๋…„์งธ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ฑธ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€” ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜(Perilla Oil Makguksu) ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ.

"While the world obsessed over olive oil, Korea had already been using something better for centuries." โ€” Perilla Oil Makguksu.

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธŒ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋ฐฐํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ ๋…„์งธ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ฑธ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€” ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ.

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๊ฐ•์›๋„ ๋ด‰ํ‰ ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๋ฐญ โ€” ์ดํšจ์„ ์†Œ์„ค์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋œ ํ•˜์–€ ๊ฝƒ๋ฐญ

๋ด‰ํ‰ ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๋ฐญ ยท Buckwheat fields of Bongpyeong, Gangwon-do

Ask someone to picture Korean noodles and you'll get one of two images: fiery red bibim with gochujang punch, or the clean cold broth of naengmyeon. Perilla oil makguksu looks like neither. A pale tangle of buckwheat noodles, slicked with something golden and faintly herbal. It arrives quietly. Then it makes you reconsider everything you thought you knew about Korean food.

Makguksu is from Gangwon-do โ€” and more specifically, from Bongpyeong, the small village that Korean writer Yi Hyo-seok immortalized in his 1936 short story When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom. The famous opening image is fields of white buckwheat glowing under moonlight. The reason buckwheat grew there at all, though, wasn't poetry โ€” it was geography. The mountains made rice cultivation nearly impossible, so buckwheat took over. The name makguksu literally means "rough noodles" โ€” ground rough, pulled fast, eaten as-is. Perilla oil, soy sauce, sesame, dried seaweed. Four ingredients. No broth, no heat. The spicy bibim style that most foreigners associate with makguksu came later. This is the one that came first.

๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋นจ๊ฐ›๊ณ  ๋งค์šด ๋น„๋น” ์Šคํƒ€์ผ, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ฐจ๊ฐ‘๊ณ  ๋ง‘์€ ์œก์ˆ˜. ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ์ชฝ๋„ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ๋น›์œผ๋กœ ์œค๊ธฐ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๋ฉด ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์ด ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋†“์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์„ ์ž…๊ฒฌ์„ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์€ ๊ฐ•์›๋„, ๊ทธ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ ๋ด‰ํ‰์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํšจ์„์˜ ๋‹จํŽธ์†Œ์„ค ใ€Ž๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๊ฝƒ ํ•„ ๋ฌด๋ ตใ€(1936)์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋œ ๊ทธ ๋งˆ์„. ํ•˜์–€ ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๊ฝƒ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋น›์— ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ๋•…์ด ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€์„ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ๊ฑด ๋‚ญ๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ˜„์‹ค์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค โ€” ์‚ฐ์ด ๋งŽ์•„ ๋ฒผ๋†์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”. '๋ง‰'๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„๋„ "๋ง‰ ๊ฐˆ์•„, ๋ง‰ ๋ฝ‘์•„, ๋ง‰ ๋จน๋Š”" ์†Œ๋ฐ•ํ•จ์—์„œ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„, ๊ตญ๊ฐ„์žฅ, ๊นจ, ๊น€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ โ€” ์žฌ๋ฃŒ ๋„ค ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ „๋ถ€์ธ ์ด ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ '๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜'๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š” ์›ํ˜•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋น” ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ์œ ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜, ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋” ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๋ฒ„์ „.

Ask someone to picture Korean noodles and you'll get one of two images: fiery red bibim with gochujang punch, or the clean cold broth of naengmyeon. Perilla oil makguksu looks like neither. A pale tangle of buckwheat noodles, slicked with something golden and faintly herbal. It arrives quietly. Then it makes you reconsider everything.

Makguksu is from Gangwon-do โ€” more specifically, from Bongpyeong, the village Yi Hyo-seok immortalized in his 1936 short story When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom. The buckwheat grew there not for poetry, but because the mountains made rice farming impossible. The name makguksu means "rough noodles" โ€” ground rough, pulled fast, eaten as-is. Perilla oil, soy sauce, sesame, dried seaweed. Four ingredients. The spicy bibim style came later. This is the original.

๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋นจ๊ฐ›๊ณ  ๋งค์šด ๋น„๋น” ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ์œก์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ์ชฝ๋„ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์€ ๊ฐ•์›๋„ ๋ด‰ํ‰. ์ดํšจ์„์˜ ใ€Ž๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๊ฝƒ ํ•„ ๋ฌด๋ ตใ€(1936) ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋œ ๊ทธ ๋งˆ์„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฐ์ด ๋งŽ์•„ ๋ฒผ๋†์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋•…์—์„œ ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€์ด ์ž๋ž๊ณ , ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ยท๊ฐ„์žฅยท๊นจยท๊น€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ ๋„ค ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ๋จน๋Š” ์ด ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์›ํ˜•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๋น” ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋จผ์ €์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋จน๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด โ€” ํ˜ผ์ž, ์ฐฝ๊ฐ€, ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ€
"The quiet counter-argument to everything K-Food is supposed to be."

In a moment when "K-Spicy" has become shorthand for an entire cuisine, perilla oil makguksu has quietly become the counter-argument. It's the dish Korean food lovers point to when they want to say: we have a different register. Something restrained. Something precise. The old-school makguksu joints โ€” some pulling noodles the same way for fifty years โ€” still run lunchtime queues on weekdays. This was never a trend. It didn't need to be.

์ง€๊ธˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฏธ์‹๊ฐ€๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๊ทน ์—†์ด, ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๊ณ ๋ช… ์—†์ด, ์ด ์ •๋„๋กœ ์™„์„ฑ๋„ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค. "K-ํ‘ธ๋“œ๋Š” ๋‹ค ๋งต๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•˜๋‹ค"๋Š” ํŽธ๊ฒฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์กฐ์šฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ•˜๋Š” ์Œ์‹. ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„์งธ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋ฉด์„ ๋ฝ‘๋Š” ์ „๋ฌธ์ ๋“ค์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํ‰์ผ ๋‚ฎ์— ์ค„์„ ์„ธ์šฐ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In a moment when "K-Spicy" has become shorthand for an entire cuisine, perilla oil makguksu has quietly become the counter-argument. Something restrained. Something precise. The old-school makguksu joints still run lunchtime queues on weekdays. This was never a trend. It didn't need to be.

์ง€๊ธˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฏธ์‹๊ฐ€๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ž€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๊ทน ์—†์ด๋„ ์ด ์ •๋„๋กœ ์™„์„ฑ๋„ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค. "K-ํ‘ธ๋“œ๋Š” ๋‹ค ๋งต๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฌํ•˜๋‹ค"๋Š” ํŽธ๊ฒฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์กฐ์šฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ•˜๋Š” ์Œ์‹.

Fast Facts
๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ โ€” ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ๋น› ๋“ค๊นจ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ํด๋กœ์ฆˆ์—… ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„
๋ฉ”๋ฐ€ ์›๋ฌผ โ€” ๊ฒ€์€ ์•Œ๊ฐฑ์ด์˜ ๊ฑฐ์นœ ์งˆ๊ฐ ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€
๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ด‰ํ‰ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜์ง‘ ํ˜„์žฅ ์„ฑ์ง€์ˆœ๋ก€

์™ผ์ชฝ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ: ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ยท ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€ ์›๋ฌผ ยท ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์ง€

That's Not Sesame Oil

Perilla oil and sesame oil are not the same thing. They look alike, smell vaguely similar, but perilla oil carries up to 60 times more omega-3 fatty acids than olive oil. The Western food world is only beginning to notice โ€” Koreans have known for centuries.

๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„(๋“ค๊นจ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„)๊ณผ ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„(์ฐธ๊นจ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„)์€ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฒผ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์˜ ์˜ค๋ฉ”๊ฐ€-3 ์ง€๋ฐฉ์‚ฐ ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธŒ์œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ตœ๋Œ€ 60๋ฐฐ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ๊ตฌ์—์„œ 'ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ธŒ์œ '๋ผ๋Š” ๋ณ„๋ช…์ด ๋ถ™๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ด์œ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Buckwheat Advantage

Buckwheat is not wheat. Botanically closer to quinoa and amaranth โ€” no gluten, low glycemic index, rich in lysine, an essential amino acid wheat lacks. The Western wellness world has been chasing buckwheat for years. In Bongpyeong, they just call it noodles.

๋ฉ”๋ฐ€์€ ๋ฐ€์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹๋ฌผ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜์ƒ ํ€ด๋…ธ์•„์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณ„์—ด. ๊ธ€๋ฃจํ… ์—†๊ณ , GI ์ง€์ˆ˜ ๋‚ฎ๊ณ , ๋ฐ€์— ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ ๋ผ์ด์‹ ๋„ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ๊ตฌ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์‹ํ’ˆ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ๋ช‡ ๋…„์งธ ์ซ“๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์ธ๋ฐ, ๋ด‰ํ‰์—์„  ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ฉด์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Not Your Average Noodle

Buckwheat noodles don't behave like wheat noodles. No gluten means low elasticity โ€” the moment they're pulled, the clock starts. The texture is cool and slightly crumbly with an earthy, nutty finish. They don't absorb sauce like pasta does; they sit on top of the oil, coated. That's why the ratio matters so much.

๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๋ฉด์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐ€๋ฉด๊ณผ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์›€์ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธ€๋ฃจํ…์ด ์—†์–ด ์ ์„ฑ์ด ๋‚ฎ๊ณ , ๋ฝ‘๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํƒฑํƒฑํ•จ ๋Œ€์‹  ์„œ๋Š˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Š์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•œ ์‹๊ฐ, ๋’ค์— ๋‚จ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™๋‚ด์Œ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ–ฅ. ๋ฐ€๋ฉด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์†Œ์Šค๋ฅผ ํก์ˆ˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ์œ„์— ์–นํ˜€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋น„์œจ์ด ์ „๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Gangwon Pilgrimage

People in Seoul drive two hours to Sokcho or Chuncheon just for makguksu and turn around and drive back. The buckwheat grown in Gangwon soil, milled and pulled the same day โ€” the texture is different. Once you've had that version, it resets your baseline.

์„œ์šธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ฃผ๋ง์— 2์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์šด์ „ํ•ด์„œ ์†์ดˆยท์ถ˜์ฒœ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ๋จน์œผ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒŒ ์‹ค์ œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ•์›๋„ ๋•…์—์„œ ์ž๋ž€ ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๋กœ ๋‹น์ผ ๋ฝ‘์€ ๋ฉด์˜ ํ…์Šค์ฒ˜๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ค€์ด ๋ฆฌ์…‹๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

How to Make
โญ Easy โฑ 15 min ๐Ÿœ Serves 2
์žฌ๋ฃŒ Ingredient ๋Œ€์ฒด์žฌ / ๊ตฌ๋งค์ฒ˜ Substitute / Where to Find
๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๋ฉด 200g Buckwheat soba noodles โ€” Korean/Japanese grocery, Amazon
๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ 3~4 tbsp Perilla seed oil โ€” NOT sesame oil ยท Korean grocery (H-Mart, online)
๊ตญ๊ฐ„์žฅ 2 tbsp Korean soup soy sauce ยท ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฐ„์žฅ + ์†Œ๊ธˆ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์ฒด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
๊น€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ 2 tbsp Dried seaweed flakes ยท Crumbled roasted nori works too
ํ†ต๊นจ 1 tbsp Toasted sesame seeds
์˜ค์ด โ…“๊ฐœ (์ฑ„) ์„ ํƒ Julienned cucumber โ€” optional but recommended
๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ๋ฐ˜์ˆ™ 1๊ฐœ ์„ ํƒ Soft-boiled egg โ€” optional
  1. 1

    Boil buckwheat noodles in plenty of water for 3โ€“4 minutes. Rinse thoroughly under cold running water until fully cooled. Shake off excess water well โ€” this matters more than it sounds.

    ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๋ฉด์„ ๋“๋Š” ๋ฌผ์— 3~4๋ถ„ ์‚ถ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์— ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํ—น๊ถˆ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์‹ํžŒ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํ„ธ์–ด๋‚ธ๋‹ค โ€” ์ด๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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    In a mixing bowl, add the soy sauce first, then slowly pour in the perilla oil while stirring to combine.

    ๋ณผ์— ๊ตญ๊ฐ„์žฅ์„ ๋จผ์ € ๋„ฃ๊ณ , ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋ถ€์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ž˜ ์„ž๋Š”๋‹ค.

  3. 3

    Add the noodles and toss gently until every strand is coated โ€” not saturated, just coated.

    ๋ฉด์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์†Œ์Šค๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ๋„๋ก ์†์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ๋ฒ„๋ฌด๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ํก์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ฝ”ํŒ…์ด ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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    Transfer to a bowl. Finish generously with seaweed flakes, then sprinkle sesame seeds. Add julienned cucumber and a soft-boiled egg to complete.

    ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์— ๋‹ด๊ณ  ๊น€๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ ๋’ค, ๊นจ๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋“ฌ๋ฟ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ์˜ค์ด์™€ ๋‹ฌ๊ฑ€ ๋ฐ˜์ˆ™์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ.

๋ณผ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๊ณผ ๊ฐ„์žฅ ์†Œ์Šค๋กœ ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€๋ฉด์„ ๋ฒ„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด

๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ + ๊ฐ„์žฅ ์†Œ์Šค๋กœ ์ฝ”ํŒ…ํ•˜๋“ฏ ๋ฒ„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํฌ์ธํŠธ ยท Toss to coat, not to soak

์™„์„ฑ๋œ ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜์— ๊นจ๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์žฅ๋ฉด

๊นจ๊ฐ€๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์•„๋‚Œ์—†์ด ยท Don't hold back on the sesame

๐Ÿ’ก ์ด๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ์•Œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ยท The One Rule

Never heat the perilla oil. Add it raw, at room temperature, at the very end. Heat destroys the delicate herbal aroma that makes perilla oil what it is. That fragrance โ€” somewhere between grass and nuts โ€” is the whole point.

๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์€ ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๊ฐ€์—ดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์—, ์ƒ์˜จ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋„ฃ์–ด์•ผ ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ํŠน์œ ์˜ ํ’€ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ๊ณ ์†Œํ•จ์ด ์‚ด์•„๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ํ–ฅ์ด ์ด ์Œ์‹์˜ ์ „๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Where to Eat
์„œ์šธ ยท ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ Seoul & Gyeonggi โ€” ๋„์‹ฌ์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ •ํ†ต ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€
๋ฑ…๋ฑ…๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ Bangbang Makguksu ยท Gangnam, Seoul

๊ตญ์‚ฐ ๋“ค๊นจ ์ฐฉ์ฆ™ ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ + ๊ฐํƒœ ์กฐํ•ฉ. ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ์ž…๋ฌธ ๋ง›์ง‘์œผ๋กœ MZ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰๋˜๋Š” ๊ณณ. ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ 12,000์›๋Œ€. ์ฃผ๋ง ์›จ์ดํŒ… ์žˆ์Œ.

Cold-pressed domestic perilla oil paired with sea mustard. The go-to for first-timers and the most Instagrammed makguksu spot in Seoul. Around 12,000 won. Weekend queues expected.

์ž˜๋น ์ง„๋ฉ”๋ฐ€ Jalbappajin Memil ยท Multiple Seoul Locations

100% ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€ ์ˆœ๋ฉด, ์˜์–ด ๋ฉ”๋‰ด ์žˆ์Œ. ํŠธ๋Ÿฌํ”Œ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ ๋ณ€ํ˜•์œผ๋กœ SNS ๋ฒ„์ฆˆ. ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋™ํ–‰ ์‹œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ ์ตœ๊ณ .

100% buckwheat noodles with English menus โ€” the most foreign-friendly option in Seoul. Their truffle makguksu variation has its own fan base. Multiple locations, easy to find.

๋ด‰ํ‰ ์„ฑ์ง€์ˆœ๋ก€ Bongpyeong, Gangwon-do โ€” ๋ฉ”๋ฐ€์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์—์„œ ๋จน๋Š” ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡

๋ฐœ์Œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ ยท Pronunciation Guide

"๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜" = Deul-gi-reum Mak-guk-su

๋“ค (Deul) โ€” rhymes with "pull"
๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ (gi-reum) โ€” sounds like "gear-um"
๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ (Mak-guk-su) โ€” mak rhymes with "rock"

#๋“ค๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ #๋ง‰๊ตญ์ˆ˜ #ํ•œ๊ตญ์Œ์‹ #KFoodStories #KoreanFood #Makguksu #PerillaOil #KoreanNoodles
Next Up โ†’ 6์„ธ๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ๋“์–ด์˜จ ๊ฒƒ. ๋œ์žฅ(Doenjang) โ€” ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋œ์žฅ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋จผ์ €์˜€๊ณ , ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ๋” ๊นŠ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿซ™
Something that's been fermenting for six centuries. Doenjang โ€” it predates miso, and it knows it.

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